Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Death count in Sept. 11 attacks increases by 1 (AP)
• UN separates al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions (AP)
• Senate panel agrees on defense budget blueprint (AP)
• US funds hunt for Libyan missiles (AP)
• Bashir jailing will not end threat: analysts (AFP)
• Nigeria president visits site of first suicide blast (AFP)
• Analysis: Indonesia cleric's jailing fails to ease terror fight (Reuters)
• Holder defends terror trials in civilian courts (AP)
• Attorney General Holder defends terrorism trial plans (Reuters)
• NY judge: Case against ex-Soviet officer 'thin' (AP)

Death count in Sept. 11 attacks increases by 1 (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 05:16 PM PDT AP - A man who died last year of lung disease was added Friday to the official list of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

UN separates al-Qaida and Taliban sanctions (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 01:11 PM PDT AP - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to treat al-Qaida and the Taliban separately when it comes to U.N. sanctions, a move aimed at supporting the Afghan government's reconciliation efforts and more effectively fighting global terrorism.

Senate panel agrees on defense budget blueprint (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 11:34 AM PDT AP - A blueprint for defense programs approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee would write into law the handling of captured terrorist suspects, including a permanent ban on building facilities in the United States to house those currently at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

US funds hunt for Libyan missiles (AP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 10:09 AM PDT AP - The U.S. is paying two European mine-clearing groups nearly $1 million to hunt and dispose of loose anti-aircraft missiles that could make their way from Libyan battlefields to terror groups.

Bashir jailing will not end threat: analysts (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT AFP - The jailing of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on terrorism charges will not diminish his influence on militant extremists unless he is strictly controlled behind bars, analysts said Friday.

Nigeria president visits site of first suicide blast (AFP) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT AFP - President Goodluck Jonathan visited Friday the site of Nigeria's first suicide blast, claimed by Islamists, assuring that security forces were tackling the "ugly" emergence of terror attacks.

Analysis: Indonesia cleric's jailing fails to ease terror fight (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jun 2011 02:40 AM PDT Reuters - While Indonesia's most notorious Islamist was sitting in a cell awaiting his fate, militants linked to his supposedly peaceful Jema'ah Ansharut Tauhid group shot policemen while trying to rob a bank and wounded 30 people in a suicide bombing at a police mosque.

Holder defends terror trials in civilian courts (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:16 PM PDT AP - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the prosecution of terrorism suspects in civilian court after the top-ranking Senate Republican urged him to send two Iraqis to Guantanamo Bay rather than try them in Kentucky.

Attorney General Holder defends terrorism trial plans (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:49 PM PDT Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the Obama administration's use of criminal courts to try terrorism suspects after a renewed call to send them to military trials at the naval base in Cuba.

NY judge: Case against ex-Soviet officer 'thin' (AP) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:41 PM PDT AP - A federal judge in Manhattan has cast doubt on charges against an ex-Soviet officer accused of selling arms to terrorists.

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